November 23, 2025 • 33 mins
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Democratic Party Civil War
- Longtime leaders like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are portrayed as vulnerable to primary challenges from younger, more progressive figures.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is highlighted as a rising star, with speculation about her future Senate run or even a presidential bid.
- Calls for “new leadership” from figures like Cory Booker and other progressives are emphasized.
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Rise of the Radical Left
- The narrative suggests the Democratic Party is moving rapidly toward socialism and Marxism.
- Mentions Chi Osse, a 27-year-old New York City council member, filing paperwork to challenge Hakeem Jeffries in a Democratic primary.
- References to Democratic Socialists of America and progressive insurgents challenging establishment figures nationwide.
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Electoral and Strategic Implications
- Polling data cited shows AOC with a significant favorability advantage over Schumer among New York Democrats.
- Concerns that Democrats are prioritizing social media-driven extremism over centrist policies that appeal to swing voters.
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Contrast with Trump’s Economic Agenda
- The latter part of the podcast shifts to praising Donald Trump’s second-term economic performance.
- Claims include:
- Inflation reduction from Biden-era highs.
- Wage growth and price declines in key categories.
- Massive investments and tariff-driven reshoring of jobs.
- Tax cuts and deregulation benefiting American families.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Democrats are experiencing a falling out in the aftermath of
the government shut down. It's now turning into what is
an essence, a civil war. How bad is it? Well,
here's one headline from the Hill. Is this the end
of Chuck Schumer. Democrats have generally been unable to agree
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on much over the past year, but now they seemingly
agree on one thing. That is its time to get
rid of the old guard and they must go with
the socialist, Communists and Marxist leaders of their future. That
is exactly what is happening. Is the fight is continuing
on Capitol Hill. Schumer's leadership position is increasingly unattainable as
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he comes under fire from both moderates and his left
crazies that have been allowed to exist in the Democratic
Party and now in essence, they've taken over the Hill.
Putting it this way, as they described exactly how bad
it's gotten for Chuck Schumer, who is one of the
most liberal members in the Senate's history, but he's not
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liberal enough anymore for the Marxists, the socialists in the Communists.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, AOC challenge the most powerful Senate Democrat. It's become
a favorite topic of Washington political chatter as Senemorder leader
Chuck Schumer faces an onslaught of attacks over his handling
of the government shutdown. It comes as the profile of
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez continues to rise, and that's leading to
speculation that the two New Yorkers could be heading for
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a showdown in twenty twenty eight. That's when Schumer is
up for reelection, and there are growing signs the five
term senator could be vulnerable in a Democratic primary in
the Empire State. Schumer will be seventy seven years old
on election day twenty twenty eight, and eighty four by
the time the term ends. This at a time when
many Democrats are pressing for new blood in the party,
and Schumer has been the target of rage from many
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Democrats after eight members of the Senate Caucus broke ranks
this week to end government shut down without securing concessions
the party sought aoc is a darling of the progressive left.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Her reach on social media.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is vast, Her rallies draw large crowds, and she secured
a big victory last week when her allies or Hanmamdani,
was elected mayor of New York City. Notably, Schumer did
not endorse in the race. For his part, Schumer has
not announced his intentions for twenty twenty eight. Many Democrats
believe he will eventually bow out. Others say he remains
a well like figure among New York Democrats and his
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seniority in the party will play a role in the
calculus heading into twenty twenty eight. There's also this Some
believe AOC star has grown so bright that she could
brush aside a Senate run and instead seek the presidency.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I want you to think about what you just heard.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
AOC could just move past a Senate run goes straight
to the presidency. Is that crazy talk? The answer is no.
When you have a Democrat that is a five term
sin right six times five? Is what do the math
on that? And a nine term representative is underscoring just
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how precarious Schumer's position actually is. You have these eight
Democrats that broke with their party to reopen the government.
By the way, Schumer voted to keep the government closed,
and yet they're still angry at Schumer, and now they
have a simple demand, you must resign. He was also
accused of trying to quote screw over the party.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Schumer was also held up as another example of why
we need quote new leadership. And that's just what Democrats
in Congress had to say. None of what I just
quoted you from there was from outside of elected members
of Congress. Now, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting
that at least eleven House Democrats, eleven progressive nonprofits, and
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six Democratic Senate candidates have called on mister Schumer to
step away officially as the minority leader. In other words,
Schumer has literally managed to alienate virtually everyone in his
own party. Progressives are blaming him for not being quote
strong enough to rein in the defectors, while moderates are
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angry with Schumer and saying he engineered the longest shutdown
ever for literally nothing because Democrats got nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So this is where Schumer is.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
He's literally caught between the extreme radical left, the Marxist,
the socialists, and the communists. And then the moderates of
his party are saying, what the hell were you doing?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Like you put us in a bad spot going into
reelection and you had to shut down and we have
nothing to show for anything here with this shutdown, So
they're angry too. How do you get out of that?
I don't know now courting by the way to see
an end uh with. He now has a minus four
point favorability among Democratic voters. Schumer is the least popular
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Democratic Senate leader since the polling began asking the question
all the way back in nineteen eighty five. Just to
put in perspective for you now, the same poll also
suggests that if Schumer were up for election today, and
this is obviously where Nancy Pelosi and AOC and all
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these are fighting over this, the same poll suggests that
if Schumer were up for election today, he would likely
suffer a quote historic defeat in a primary against AOC
who is clearly preparing a Senate run. All right, that's
what everyone is talking about right now the Democratic Party.
Here's the other thing that's interesting. Among New York Democrats.
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AOC's net favorability is significantly higher. In fact, it is
thirty points higher than Schumer. It is a US forty
six points versus plus sixteen. So that confirms the results
of a pullback in May that showed that AOC was
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clearly winning a matchup by twenty one points. It'd be
fifty four to thirty three among likely Democratic voters in
a primary. Now, I ever wins the primary, he's going
to win the general. We all know that because it's
New York and so Schumer is not up for reelection,
and this is good for him. Until twenty twenty eight,
he'll likely be He'll be like week shy. I think
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of his seventy eighth birthday. And now he's got to
deal with a primary challenge, and there's a good chance
he may lose his power in the Senate as the
leader of the Democratic Party there as well. How did
we get to this point, I'll tell you exactly how
because of the radical left in the Democrats, and the
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Democrats did not police them. They have now taken over Senaer. Booker,
by the way, is also now calling for new leadership
in the Democratic Party. Here's part of that conversation on
Fox News Channel as they were describing what is now
at civil war.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
So in terms of who will be leading the Democrats,
there's a good chance it might not be Chuck Schumer
in the Senate because Corey Booker seems to be leading
the charge in terms of wanting new leadership.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Listen to what he.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Said, Chuck Schumer's generation Nancy Pelosi's generation, John Lewis's generation.
They have so much to be proud of. It is time, though,
for new leadership the other generations ex. Millennials, Zee, It's
time for us to step up. The stage is waiting
for us to lead, not just the party but the
nation right now?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Is it time?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think the Democrats are fishing in the wrong well here.
It's not an issue of a just not an issue
of generation. It's an issue of the party being way
too far left. What the election told us last week
is that the economy may be better under the Trump administration,
that it wasn't inder the Biden administration.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
But it's not good enough.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Democrats have a lane right here. But what they're doing
is they're going to the far left because that's where
the social media influencers are. Social media loves conflict, it
loves anger, it loves extremism. But that's not where voters are.
Seventy percent of American voters are either conservative or moderate,
and there is a lane here. There's an opportunity for
Democrats to go after those voters, those swing voters that
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make the difference in the national elections coming up. We
haven't seen national Virginia, New Jersey, New York. They were
not national elections. You take this progressive socialist show on
the road nationally, it's not going to work. If Democrats
move to the political center, that's where that's where the
sweet part is for them. But they can't do that
because they are addicted to the social media left break yea.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
And when you think about who are the loudest voices
in the Democratic Party, it's alexandri or Cassio Cortez, it's
Jasmin Crockett, it's Bernie Sanders. But when asked about who
the future leaders of the Democratic Party are, listen to
what roconnaissan.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
We have dynamic, young new leaders where some of it.
Chris Murphy is a top leader. Cory Booker is a
dynamic leader. Brian Schatz is a dynamic leader. Do you
think Democrats around the country think that Chuck Schumer should
be the face of the future of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Of course, not interesting that there was not a mention
of AOC, Jasbin Crockett or any of the people on
the far left.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Chris Murphy was about as far as you got.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Well, I think Julian had exactly right, and that Democrats
are far too worried right now about pronouns as opposed
to paychecks or issues that Americans are really concerned about.
But I don't think that the solution is the fact
that Corey Booker looked around and Senator Spartacus let everyone
know that he might be the best person to step
up and lead. The fact of the matter is right
now is Democrats have two real problems. Number one, not
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just the ideology, but they don't have a specific set
of issues or ideas to tackle those issues that they
can lead with. The second thing is when they talk
about leaders, Chris Murphy is like watching paint dry. He
is very boring. Until Democrats actually have some leaders who
can step up, no one's going to grab the attention
we're be able to command any sort of audience. Now
that said, regardless of the fact of how left the
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Democrats have gone so far, whoever the Democrats do put
forward in twenty eight will be formidable. The country is
very much right down the middle of very divided, and
so it will be a tough battle. But I don't
think Democrats know who they want yet.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah the moment, I love how they say there, I
don't think they know who they want. Yet, Like, that's
the part here that I think is so frustrating is
for them as they're like, yeah, of course they do.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
They know exactly who they want. You know who they want.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
They want radical socialist Marxist communists, and they want them
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point that I think is very interesting, and that is
how fast the Democratic Party is actually moving to the
radical left. You got Mundani that gets elected full blown
communists is in. Socialists is in New York City. Cheosay
remember that name, all right, chi Osay. It's probably the
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first time I've ever heard it, but it's a name
that you're going to want to remember. Because Chosay has
now filed paperwork to challenge Hakeem Jeffries from the left.
This is again how crazy the left has become. Now
this story gets just insane because you have this New
York City council member that filed the paperwork this week
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to run against the House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. Now,
let's be clear, six months ago, Hakim Jeffries was like
AOC of the left. Now apparently he's not left enough
for this Brooklyn based congressional seat that just also gave
you Mundani. So this is what this dude's saying. All right,
and again's New York City council member. We know they're
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extreme there.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The Democratic Party's leadership is not only failing to effectively
fight back against Donald Trump. They have also failed to
deliver a vision that we can all believe in. Osei,
who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, so it's
another socialist set. In a statement to Axios, these failures
are some of the many reasons why I'm currently exploring
a potential run for New York's eighth congressional district.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Again, this is a Keeame Jeffries district.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
This is no longer a Democratic party, that's a socialist party.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
This is a twenty seven year old, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He's also an ally of the New York Mayor Mandani
and is known as a left wing voice in the
New York City Council. Osei was considering the bid against Jeffries,
and now he's saying, well, because the government shutdown, I
just got to do it. He filed the FI Federal
Election Commission on Monday to run in the Democratic primary
for the New York's eighth district, which covers parts of
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South and East Brooklyn. His team also set up an
Act Blue page they're the radical left organization for him
to begin fundraising for his run. Jefferies campaign spokesman is
not responding.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Asked by Axios in October about a possible primary challenge
from this city council member, Jeffries replied, if you ask
me a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer.
And you know what's not a serious question based on
everything coming out of Brooklyn. So he's basically like, this
guy's beneath me. Well, guess what, you just got a
socialist elected to the mayor's office. There's a very good
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chance that this kid, twenty seven year old socialists could
win against the leader of the Democratic Party in the House,
who was an extreme leftist when they elected him. Now,
Jeffreys campaign spokesman also said, asked again last week if
you had a comment on the reports of New York
Times in the New York Posts that Osay was planned
to run, Jeffries responded simply no. Despite being a high
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profile supporter Mundani OSEI will likely run without the incoming
mayor's support, at least for now, we're being told, and
that may not matter. When you can say, hey, I'm
just like the mayor, that'll probably help. When you say
you're a socialist, that helps, And when you say you
want to give away free stuff that helps. Is this
on brand for New York in the Bronx at Brooklyn area. Yes,
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no doubt.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is also interesting because this run would be a
part of a broader nationwide effort my younger and more
progressive Democrats to Alison come into the say as just
too old or to establishment oriented in the Democratic Party.
Many of those insurgent candidates declined to comment on whether
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they would even vote or commit to vote for Jeffries
as a leader or even a speaker, and many of
them said, you know what, no, in general, we would
not do this. So this is again enraged Democrats. And
I'm going to go to another headline here, and I'm
going to read you this headline, and this is what
it says. Quote, enraged Democratic candidates turn on their own leaders.
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When I tell you this, in all how civil war.
It is Democratic congressional candidates nationwide, feeding off voter fury,
are raging against their leadership and vowing to be ruthless.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I'm not a when they go low, we go high person.
I'm not that kind of girl. That is what Texas
State Representative Jones, who's running in a November special election
for a safely Democratic US House seat, said to Axios
dealing with Republicans saying, what if they go lo, I'm
going to the gutter. So that is now the mantra
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of the Democratic Party. Axios interviewed dozens of Democratic congressional candidates,
some challenging longtime Democrat incumbents and others running in open
primaries in blue or purple seats. What was consistent across
many of those interviews, Axio says, was a notion that
the Democratic Party establishment has not been met or has
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not met, I should say, the moment since President Trump
re entered the White House in January. So they're saying,
you've got to be even more extreme to go up
against Trump. And this echoes, by the way, what Democratic
elective officials have heard from their constituents, particularly in their
liberal grass roots, for the last nine months. It also
signals a massive headache for Democratic leadership, which may have
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to grapple with its own version of the Tea Party
wave and re havoc on the GOP leadership back in
the day.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So here's what you got to know.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
They left the radical left, the socialist left of the
Democratic Party says, Look, this is what the American people want.
They want to be part of a movement that fights back,
they say for their rights. That's what a former Houston
City councilwoman, a man Edwards, another leading Canada the Texas
special election set.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Then you got Donald Trump. What do they say about Trump?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
She said, quote Trump is willing to go as far
as he can possibly go and has no limitations. At
what point are we going to be in a position
where we are ready to fight back and have a strategy.
So she's demanding massive change within the Democratic Party. Now
there's also a prominent progressive influencer running in Illinois told
Axios his name is Kat You need to show the
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people that you're angry, and not just that you're angry,
that you're going to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We're on the brink of.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
A authoritarian coup, is what a former tech entrepreneur in
Progressive Operative challenging former Speaker in Ancy Pelosi had to say.
A week before Pelosi said I'm not going to run
for reelection, she said, people want to see the legislators
actually showing up at these courthouses and confronting Ice, something
she says Nancy Pelosi didn't do. And now we know
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Nancy Pelosi is not going to run for re election. Now,
dozens of Democratic candidates for the US House are refusing
to commit or outright declining to vote for House Minority
Leader at Keem Jeffers, a speaker or leader.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
That is again the newest report that's coming out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Democratic leadership has to take a much stronger stand against
the Trump administration, is what the Evans Sound Mayor Daniel Biss,
another one of the leading candidates in one of those races,
said as well. Biss added, we can't be afraid to
use our leverage to fight back, and we have to
speak out clearly and forcefully about the damaged Trump is
doing to our communities. People are angry, they're frustrated, and
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they're deeply dismayed by what they're seeing, of course by
the Trump administration, but honestly, a lot of it is
profound disappointment with a Democrat. That is what an attorney
by the name of Patrick Roth, a primary challenger to
Representative Stephen Lynch, a Democrat Massachusetts, said in another interview. So,
if you look away for just a moment and you
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zoom out from these local races, here's what the takeaway is.
Number One, many of the leading Democratic candids and key
battleground primaries are Jeffrey loyalists or recruits. It may take
only a handful of renegades to frustrate the leadership if
he wins a small majority next year. The nearly dozen
House Democratics that are retiring or seeking higher off as
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this cycle have left a slew of crowded Democratic primaries
in their wake. That leadership are going to have virtually
no control over trying to control the situation right. They
would love to hand pick people that ain't going to
happen now. That is in addition to the ten older
House Democrats who are facing well funded primary challengers as well.
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And this is another way that Jones house Ken in
Texas said it this way quote, I just think that
the days of following a playbook are over. There's no
way I'm following rules when other people aren't. If you
grew up in the hood like me, that's the fastest
way literally to be killed. My brother was murdered, my
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aunt was murdered, my cousin was murdered. My dad blew
his brains out. So I come from a different world
where everything isn't so pretty like the Democrats want. Sometimes
blank is ugly and you've got to be able to
fight ugly. So there's a candidate for the Democratic Party
saying I'm fighting ugly.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I'll go as low as I need to go.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
The Democrats are now eating their own and the people
that used to be the extreme of the Democratic Party
literally in the last six months, have become not extreme
enough for the Democratic Party. This is truly insane. President
Trump going on offense, minding the American people of what
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America looked like before he became president the second time,
and also reminding you what Democrats want to do this
country economically, and reminding you about what all has already
been accomplished.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
In the last nine months.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
As the President described it, we're making big progress on prices,
and we'll keep working to make sure everyone benefits, the
President making it clear at a summit revolving around McDonald's
where one in eight Americans have actually worked that Denald
Trump not only inherited an economic mess when he took office,
but that was because of years of mismanagement under Joe Biden,
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his incompetent administration, and Democrats in Congress who also spent
years insisting and lying to you claiming that inflation was
quote transitory, and then they decided to go out trillions
and new spinning and dramatically upscale our government sides. This
brought the country the brink of economic ruin, which is
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mainly why Donald Trump was elected. Now, since day one,
the Trump administration has been on a mission to tame
Biden's inflation crisis, stop the sky high Biden price increases,
and lower costs for everyday families. While it can't happen overnight,
the White House says, there is clear evidence that shows
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the trend is in the right direction now. President Trump
had to tame Biden's inflation, and under Biden, inflation average
nearly five percent and hitting nine point one percent during
the worst inflation crisis in decades, all of it fueled
by radical left, out of control government spending. In President
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Trump's second term, inflation has dropped to an average of
just two point seven percent, significantly lower than the four
year average of five percent under Biden and nine point
one percent of it's all time high, artical first step
in reversing the Democrats' cost of living disaster. In fact,
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under President Trump, Americans have even seen the first overall
price declines since twenty twenty In several different categories. Now,
Americans have made real wage gains as well, and there's
still work to do, The White House says as well,
but let's remind you about where we were Under Biden,
workers lost more than two thousand, nine hundred dollars in
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purchasing power, meaning inflation rose faster than wages. In President
Trump's second term, even after accounting for higher prices, America's
real wages have grown by nearly seven hundred dollars and
are on track to increase by nearly one thy two
hundred after his first full year in office. And then
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there's the major prices that we deal with every day.
Gas price is a great example. Under Biden, the average
gas price was the highest it had ever been during
a president of term, reaching its highest ever price even
after he drained our strategic oil reserves to artificially decrease
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pricing before election day. And President Trump's second term, Americans
have seen the lowest average gas price in more than
four years, and we're on track to spend the lowest
amount of their disposable income on gas in the last
two decades. As President Trump's energy dominance vision continues to
come to fruition, energy prices, they say, we'll fall even further,
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igniting another price decline that will help all Americans. Now,
if you're not happy with the price of the pump,
let's talk about Grocery prices and housing prices are trending
also in the right directions for American workers. Prices for
everyday staples are starting to see declines finally under Donald Trump.
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Prices for eggs, for butter, ice cream, fresh fruit, cereal, seafood, rice, pasta,
and ham have all seen declines, and more help is
on the way. Housing costs are also moderating. Under Biden,
mortgage rates at their highest in decades. In President Trump's
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second term, the average thirty year fixed rate mortgage was
six point one seven percent at the end of October,
twelve percent lower than when he took office. That according
to the Consumer Price Index. In fact, the twelve month
change in overall shelter costs is at its lowest level
in four years as well. Now, there are other efforts
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to continue driving prices down. The President talked about it tonight,
ramping up take home pay and strengthening our economy. President
Trump's deregulatory efforts are also saving Americans. A collective one
hundred and eighty billion. What does that mean for you?
Two than one hundred dollars per family of four? For example,
President Trump Hall Burdens and Biden air efficiency standards that
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jacked up the price of everyday appliances. And President Trump
signed into law the largest tax cut in American history.
This includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
and no tax on Social Security, all of which will
save Americans money in their tax returns. The landmark legislation
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will raise America's take on pay by as much as
thirteen thousand, three hundred and wages by as much as
eleven thousand, six hundred. So the President decided to take
the stage to talk about exactly where we are.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
And I want you to hear what the President had
to say.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
While Democrats wanted to give Americans the largest tax syke
in history, in July, I proudly gave you the largest
tax cuts in American history and signed the one Big
Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I caught the great, big beautiful bill into law.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
and no tax on Social Security.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
For our great seniors. That is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's amazing what the President's accomplished already this year, but
the President says I'm not done there, and made a
pledge to the American families, no matter if you're rich
or poor, conservative or liberal, black or white, or anything
else in between. Here's what the present pledged to you.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
My first term, we built the greatest economy in the
history of the world. And now we're doing it again.
But this time it really is, as I said, much stronger,
much better. I think it's going to be something that
nobody has ever seen before. My pledge to every family
and every small businesses that I will not rest until
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you are rich or stronger, more successful, happier, till you've
gotten a piece.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Of the American dream.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
Some of you in this room have really gotten a
piece of it because you made a great decision to
go with a great, great company years ago, and it's
really pretty amazing. And that begins with making America.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
We have to do.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
The word is affordable, and affordable should be our word,
not theirs, because the Democrats got up and took affordability affordable,
and they don't say that. They had the worst inflation
in history, the highest energy prices in history, everything was
the worst.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
President Trump is bringing jobs and investments back to the
US as part of his plan to expand America's economy.
In fact, since President Trump took office, companies have invested
trillions I want to say that word again, trillions of
dollars into their US based operations, on shoring and creating
hundreds of thousands of new jobs for Americans. President Trump
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is also reducing the deficit. A combination of spending cuts,
interest savings, economic growth, and tariff revenues are expected to
reduce the deficit by trillions of dollars, resulting in higher
take on pay, lower interest rates in a much stronger
American economy. In fact, one point nine million more American
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born workers are employed today than when President Trump took office.
That's one point nine million Americans who are now happily
at work with a job right now. The US has
more people working now than at any time in the
history of our country, and the Trump administration, he says,
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will not rest until the high prices that resulted from
democratic policies are fully rained in.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
He said.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
We're making progress, and the best, he says, is yet
to come.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
We're making tremendous progress.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
One point nine million more American born workers are employed
today than when I took off. To think of that,
one point nine million more today, and these are American
born workers. Nobody thought that was possible. And we have
the strongest borders in the history of our country. Nobody
comes in unless they come in legally. You see the numbers.
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Everyone thinks it's impossible a year ago, millions of people
with storming our borders. Today they only come in if
they come in legally, and wages for hourly workers arising
at the fastest pace in sixty years now.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
The President also made it clear that there's a lot
when it comes to trade deals. We're seeing trade deals
with Switzerland that have just been announced, and we're modifying
tariffs for certain agricultural products. In fact, on Friday, President
Trump signed an executive order exempting certain qualifying agricultural products
from the reciprocal tariffs that he first announced on April
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the second. Exemptions are accordingly set to be granted following
a spat of new trade deals being inked with some
of our biggest allies in the Western Hemisphere. In addition
to deals that President Trump has already secured with the EU, Japan,
the UK, and other major trading partners.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
What will this do well.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It will give substantial progress in making sure that American
workers are able to export at the same level that
we're importing. And Donald Trump also made it clear that
there are major investments coming into this country and the
tariff money is being used to help American workers, something
that the left and the media said was impossible.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Take a listen about that.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
And to your leader, who when we met, I said,
how are you doing with racist prices are coming down?
He said, we were up forty percent because of Biden
and inflation, and they're coming down and they're coming down rapidly.
So I hope that all continues to go. But we're
really doing well as the country. Most importantly, however, I
will take big picture. We have over seventeen trillion dollars
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being invested in our country in nine months. It's now
just about ready to crack eighteen, and by the end
of one year we will have about twenty to twenty
one trillion dollars invested in our country. That's more by
ten times the highest amount ever invested in any country
ever before, and it's largely because of tariffs, and I
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think November fifth election, but it's the largest amount. As
an example, so if we have twenty year twenty one
in one year, twenty one trillion, think of.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
What that is.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
That's car factories, that's AI, it's everything. They're all coming
back because of the tariffs. They're all coming back because
they don't want.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
To pay fifteen twenty thirty one hundred percent tariff. It
wasn't that complicated. People are saying, you know, Trump was right.
It really wasn't that complicated. But it's been amazing.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
As an example, if you take me at twenty for
one year, sleepy Joe Biden, you know what, he was
less than one for four years, and if they got elected,
they would have been at minus ten because people were
moving out of the country in record numbers.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So I hope you'll take the info that I gave
you today, and I hope you'll share it wherever you
can on social media, share this podcast and text messages
with family and friends, because this is the reality of
what's happening, and it's the complete opposite of what the
left and the media are selling the American people.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
They believe that they are successful.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Right now in convincing most Americans that somehow the economy
is a disaster. Because of Donald Trump, and that things
aren't getting better. In fact, they're getting worse. But if
you look at the facts, that's just not the truth.
Thank goodness, because of President Donald Trump, it is incredible leadership.
Don't forget to share this podcast, by the way, with
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your family and your friends on social media wherever you
can hit that subscribe or auto download button and I'll
talk to you again tomorrow
Democrats are experiencing a falling out in the aftermath of
the government shut down. It's now turning into what is
an essence, a civil war. How bad is it? Well,
here's one headline from the Hill. Is this the end
of Chuck Schumer. Democrats have generally been unable to agree
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on much over the past year, but now they seemingly
agree on one thing. That is its time to get
rid of the old guard and they must go with
the socialist, Communists and Marxist leaders of their future. That
is exactly what is happening. Is the fight is continuing
on Capitol Hill. Schumer's leadership position is increasingly unattainable as
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he comes under fire from both moderates and his left
crazies that have been allowed to exist in the Democratic
Party and now in essence, they've taken over the Hill.
Putting it this way, as they described exactly how bad
it's gotten for Chuck Schumer, who is one of the
most liberal members in the Senate's history, but he's not
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liberal enough anymore for the Marxists, the socialists in the Communists.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, AOC challenge the most powerful Senate Democrat. It's become
a favorite topic of Washington political chatter as Senemorder leader
Chuck Schumer faces an onslaught of attacks over his handling
of the government shutdown. It comes as the profile of
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez continues to rise, and that's leading to
speculation that the two New Yorkers could be heading for
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a showdown in twenty twenty eight. That's when Schumer is
up for reelection, and there are growing signs the five
term senator could be vulnerable in a Democratic primary in
the Empire State. Schumer will be seventy seven years old
on election day twenty twenty eight, and eighty four by
the time the term ends. This at a time when
many Democrats are pressing for new blood in the party,
and Schumer has been the target of rage from many
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Democrats after eight members of the Senate Caucus broke ranks
this week to end government shut down without securing concessions
the party sought aoc is a darling of the progressive left.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Her reach on social media.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is vast, Her rallies draw large crowds, and she secured
a big victory last week when her allies or Hanmamdani,
was elected mayor of New York City. Notably, Schumer did
not endorse in the race. For his part, Schumer has
not announced his intentions for twenty twenty eight. Many Democrats
believe he will eventually bow out. Others say he remains
a well like figure among New York Democrats and his
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seniority in the party will play a role in the
calculus heading into twenty twenty eight. There's also this Some
believe AOC star has grown so bright that she could
brush aside a Senate run and instead seek the presidency.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I want you to think about what you just heard.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
AOC could just move past a Senate run goes straight
to the presidency. Is that crazy talk? The answer is no.
When you have a Democrat that is a five term
sin right six times five? Is what do the math
on that? And a nine term representative is underscoring just
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how precarious Schumer's position actually is. You have these eight
Democrats that broke with their party to reopen the government.
By the way, Schumer voted to keep the government closed,
and yet they're still angry at Schumer, and now they
have a simple demand, you must resign. He was also
accused of trying to quote screw over the party.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Schumer was also held up as another example of why
we need quote new leadership. And that's just what Democrats
in Congress had to say. None of what I just
quoted you from there was from outside of elected members
of Congress. Now, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting
that at least eleven House Democrats, eleven progressive nonprofits, and
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six Democratic Senate candidates have called on mister Schumer to
step away officially as the minority leader. In other words,
Schumer has literally managed to alienate virtually everyone in his
own party. Progressives are blaming him for not being quote
strong enough to rein in the defectors, while moderates are
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angry with Schumer and saying he engineered the longest shutdown
ever for literally nothing because Democrats got nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So this is where Schumer is.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
He's literally caught between the extreme radical left, the Marxist,
the socialists, and the communists. And then the moderates of
his party are saying, what the hell were you doing?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Like you put us in a bad spot going into
reelection and you had to shut down and we have
nothing to show for anything here with this shutdown, So
they're angry too. How do you get out of that?
I don't know now courting by the way to see
an end uh with. He now has a minus four
point favorability among Democratic voters. Schumer is the least popular
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Democratic Senate leader since the polling began asking the question
all the way back in nineteen eighty five. Just to
put in perspective for you now, the same poll also
suggests that if Schumer were up for election today, and
this is obviously where Nancy Pelosi and AOC and all
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these are fighting over this, the same poll suggests that
if Schumer were up for election today, he would likely
suffer a quote historic defeat in a primary against AOC
who is clearly preparing a Senate run. All right, that's
what everyone is talking about right now the Democratic Party.
Here's the other thing that's interesting. Among New York Democrats.
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AOC's net favorability is significantly higher. In fact, it is
thirty points higher than Schumer. It is a US forty
six points versus plus sixteen. So that confirms the results
of a pullback in May that showed that AOC was
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clearly winning a matchup by twenty one points. It'd be
fifty four to thirty three among likely Democratic voters in
a primary. Now, I ever wins the primary, he's going
to win the general. We all know that because it's
New York and so Schumer is not up for reelection,
and this is good for him. Until twenty twenty eight,
he'll likely be He'll be like week shy. I think
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of his seventy eighth birthday. And now he's got to
deal with a primary challenge, and there's a good chance
he may lose his power in the Senate as the
leader of the Democratic Party there as well. How did
we get to this point, I'll tell you exactly how
because of the radical left in the Democrats, and the
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Democrats did not police them. They have now taken over Senaer. Booker,
by the way, is also now calling for new leadership
in the Democratic Party. Here's part of that conversation on
Fox News Channel as they were describing what is now
at civil war.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
So in terms of who will be leading the Democrats,
there's a good chance it might not be Chuck Schumer
in the Senate because Corey Booker seems to be leading
the charge in terms of wanting new leadership.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Listen to what he.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Said, Chuck Schumer's generation Nancy Pelosi's generation, John Lewis's generation.
They have so much to be proud of. It is time, though,
for new leadership the other generations ex. Millennials, Zee, It's
time for us to step up. The stage is waiting
for us to lead, not just the party but the
nation right now?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Is it time?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think the Democrats are fishing in the wrong well here.
It's not an issue of a just not an issue
of generation. It's an issue of the party being way
too far left. What the election told us last week
is that the economy may be better under the Trump administration,
that it wasn't inder the Biden administration.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
But it's not good enough.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Democrats have a lane right here. But what they're doing
is they're going to the far left because that's where
the social media influencers are. Social media loves conflict, it
loves anger, it loves extremism. But that's not where voters are.
Seventy percent of American voters are either conservative or moderate,
and there is a lane here. There's an opportunity for
Democrats to go after those voters, those swing voters that
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make the difference in the national elections coming up. We
haven't seen national Virginia, New Jersey, New York. They were
not national elections. You take this progressive socialist show on
the road nationally, it's not going to work. If Democrats
move to the political center, that's where that's where the
sweet part is for them. But they can't do that
because they are addicted to the social media left break yea.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
And when you think about who are the loudest voices
in the Democratic Party, it's alexandri or Cassio Cortez, it's
Jasmin Crockett, it's Bernie Sanders. But when asked about who
the future leaders of the Democratic Party are, listen to
what roconnaissan.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
We have dynamic, young new leaders where some of it.
Chris Murphy is a top leader. Cory Booker is a
dynamic leader. Brian Schatz is a dynamic leader. Do you
think Democrats around the country think that Chuck Schumer should
be the face of the future of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Of course, not interesting that there was not a mention
of AOC, Jasbin Crockett or any of the people on
the far left.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Chris Murphy was about as far as you got.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Well, I think Julian had exactly right, and that Democrats
are far too worried right now about pronouns as opposed
to paychecks or issues that Americans are really concerned about.
But I don't think that the solution is the fact
that Corey Booker looked around and Senator Spartacus let everyone
know that he might be the best person to step
up and lead. The fact of the matter is right
now is Democrats have two real problems. Number one, not
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just the ideology, but they don't have a specific set
of issues or ideas to tackle those issues that they
can lead with. The second thing is when they talk
about leaders, Chris Murphy is like watching paint dry. He
is very boring. Until Democrats actually have some leaders who
can step up, no one's going to grab the attention
we're be able to command any sort of audience. Now
that said, regardless of the fact of how left the
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Democrats have gone so far, whoever the Democrats do put
forward in twenty eight will be formidable. The country is
very much right down the middle of very divided, and
so it will be a tough battle. But I don't
think Democrats know who they want yet.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah the moment, I love how they say there, I
don't think they know who they want. Yet, Like, that's
the part here that I think is so frustrating is
for them as they're like, yeah, of course they do.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
They know exactly who they want. You know who they want.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
They want radical socialist Marxist communists, and they want them
to run their party. I want you to just pause
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compassion dot com. Let me also just get to another
point that I think is very interesting, and that is
how fast the Democratic Party is actually moving to the
radical left. You got Mundani that gets elected full blown
communists is in. Socialists is in New York City. Cheosay
remember that name, all right, chi Osay. It's probably the
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first time I've ever heard it, but it's a name
that you're going to want to remember. Because Chosay has
now filed paperwork to challenge Hakeem Jeffries from the left.
This is again how crazy the left has become. Now
this story gets just insane because you have this New
York City council member that filed the paperwork this week
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to run against the House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. Now,
let's be clear, six months ago, Hakim Jeffries was like
AOC of the left. Now apparently he's not left enough
for this Brooklyn based congressional seat that just also gave
you Mundani. So this is what this dude's saying. All right,
and again's New York City council member. We know they're
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extreme there.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The Democratic Party's leadership is not only failing to effectively
fight back against Donald Trump. They have also failed to
deliver a vision that we can all believe in. Osei,
who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, so it's
another socialist set. In a statement to Axios, these failures
are some of the many reasons why I'm currently exploring
a potential run for New York's eighth congressional district.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Again, this is a Keeame Jeffries district.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
This is no longer a Democratic party, that's a socialist party.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
This is a twenty seven year old, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He's also an ally of the New York Mayor Mandani
and is known as a left wing voice in the
New York City Council. Osei was considering the bid against Jeffries,
and now he's saying, well, because the government shutdown, I
just got to do it. He filed the FI Federal
Election Commission on Monday to run in the Democratic primary
for the New York's eighth district, which covers parts of
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South and East Brooklyn. His team also set up an
Act Blue page they're the radical left organization for him
to begin fundraising for his run. Jefferies campaign spokesman is
not responding.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Asked by Axios in October about a possible primary challenge
from this city council member, Jeffries replied, if you ask
me a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer.
And you know what's not a serious question based on
everything coming out of Brooklyn. So he's basically like, this
guy's beneath me. Well, guess what, you just got a
socialist elected to the mayor's office. There's a very good
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chance that this kid, twenty seven year old socialists could
win against the leader of the Democratic Party in the House,
who was an extreme leftist when they elected him. Now,
Jeffreys campaign spokesman also said, asked again last week if
you had a comment on the reports of New York
Times in the New York Posts that Osay was planned
to run, Jeffries responded simply no. Despite being a high
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profile supporter Mundani OSEI will likely run without the incoming
mayor's support, at least for now, we're being told, and
that may not matter. When you can say, hey, I'm
just like the mayor, that'll probably help. When you say
you're a socialist, that helps, And when you say you
want to give away free stuff that helps. Is this
on brand for New York in the Bronx at Brooklyn area. Yes,
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no doubt.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is also interesting because this run would be a
part of a broader nationwide effort my younger and more
progressive Democrats to Alison come into the say as just
too old or to establishment oriented in the Democratic Party.
Many of those insurgent candidates declined to comment on whether
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they would even vote or commit to vote for Jeffries
as a leader or even a speaker, and many of
them said, you know what, no, in general, we would
not do this. So this is again enraged Democrats. And
I'm going to go to another headline here, and I'm
going to read you this headline, and this is what
it says. Quote, enraged Democratic candidates turn on their own leaders.
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When I tell you this, in all how civil war.
It is Democratic congressional candidates nationwide, feeding off voter fury,
are raging against their leadership and vowing to be ruthless.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I'm not a when they go low, we go high person.
I'm not that kind of girl. That is what Texas
State Representative Jones, who's running in a November special election
for a safely Democratic US House seat, said to Axios
dealing with Republicans saying, what if they go lo, I'm
going to the gutter. So that is now the mantra
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of the Democratic Party. Axios interviewed dozens of Democratic congressional candidates,
some challenging longtime Democrat incumbents and others running in open
primaries in blue or purple seats. What was consistent across
many of those interviews, Axio says, was a notion that
the Democratic Party establishment has not been met or has
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not met, I should say, the moment since President Trump
re entered the White House in January. So they're saying,
you've got to be even more extreme to go up
against Trump. And this echoes, by the way, what Democratic
elective officials have heard from their constituents, particularly in their
liberal grass roots, for the last nine months. It also
signals a massive headache for Democratic leadership, which may have
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to grapple with its own version of the Tea Party
wave and re havoc on the GOP leadership back in
the day.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So here's what you got to know.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
They left the radical left, the socialist left of the
Democratic Party says, Look, this is what the American people want.
They want to be part of a movement that fights back,
they say for their rights. That's what a former Houston
City councilwoman, a man Edwards, another leading Canada the Texas
special election set.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Then you got Donald Trump. What do they say about Trump?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
She said, quote Trump is willing to go as far
as he can possibly go and has no limitations. At
what point are we going to be in a position
where we are ready to fight back and have a strategy.
So she's demanding massive change within the Democratic Party. Now
there's also a prominent progressive influencer running in Illinois told
Axios his name is Kat You need to show the
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people that you're angry, and not just that you're angry,
that you're going to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We're on the brink of.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
A authoritarian coup, is what a former tech entrepreneur in
Progressive Operative challenging former Speaker in Ancy Pelosi had to say.
A week before Pelosi said I'm not going to run
for reelection, she said, people want to see the legislators
actually showing up at these courthouses and confronting Ice, something
she says Nancy Pelosi didn't do. And now we know
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Nancy Pelosi is not going to run for re election. Now,
dozens of Democratic candidates for the US House are refusing
to commit or outright declining to vote for House Minority
Leader at Keem Jeffers, a speaker or leader.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
That is again the newest report that's coming out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Democratic leadership has to take a much stronger stand against
the Trump administration, is what the Evans Sound Mayor Daniel Biss,
another one of the leading candidates in one of those races,
said as well. Biss added, we can't be afraid to
use our leverage to fight back, and we have to
speak out clearly and forcefully about the damaged Trump is
doing to our communities. People are angry, they're frustrated, and
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they're deeply dismayed by what they're seeing, of course by
the Trump administration, but honestly, a lot of it is
profound disappointment with a Democrat. That is what an attorney
by the name of Patrick Roth, a primary challenger to
Representative Stephen Lynch, a Democrat Massachusetts, said in another interview. So,
if you look away for just a moment and you
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zoom out from these local races, here's what the takeaway is.
Number One, many of the leading Democratic candids and key
battleground primaries are Jeffrey loyalists or recruits. It may take
only a handful of renegades to frustrate the leadership if
he wins a small majority next year. The nearly dozen
House Democratics that are retiring or seeking higher off as
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this cycle have left a slew of crowded Democratic primaries
in their wake. That leadership are going to have virtually
no control over trying to control the situation right. They
would love to hand pick people that ain't going to
happen now. That is in addition to the ten older
House Democrats who are facing well funded primary challengers as well.
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And this is another way that Jones house Ken in
Texas said it this way quote, I just think that
the days of following a playbook are over. There's no
way I'm following rules when other people aren't. If you
grew up in the hood like me, that's the fastest
way literally to be killed. My brother was murdered, my
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aunt was murdered, my cousin was murdered. My dad blew
his brains out. So I come from a different world
where everything isn't so pretty like the Democrats want. Sometimes
blank is ugly and you've got to be able to
fight ugly. So there's a candidate for the Democratic Party
saying I'm fighting ugly.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I'll go as low as I need to go.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
The Democrats are now eating their own and the people
that used to be the extreme of the Democratic Party
literally in the last six months, have become not extreme
enough for the Democratic Party. This is truly insane. President
Trump going on offense, minding the American people of what
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America looked like before he became president the second time,
and also reminding you what Democrats want to do this
country economically, and reminding you about what all has already
been accomplished.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
In the last nine months.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
As the President described it, we're making big progress on prices,
and we'll keep working to make sure everyone benefits, the
President making it clear at a summit revolving around McDonald's
where one in eight Americans have actually worked that Denald
Trump not only inherited an economic mess when he took office,
but that was because of years of mismanagement under Joe Biden,
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his incompetent administration, and Democrats in Congress who also spent
years insisting and lying to you claiming that inflation was
quote transitory, and then they decided to go out trillions
and new spinning and dramatically upscale our government sides. This
brought the country the brink of economic ruin, which is
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mainly why Donald Trump was elected. Now, since day one,
the Trump administration has been on a mission to tame
Biden's inflation crisis, stop the sky high Biden price increases,
and lower costs for everyday families. While it can't happen overnight,
the White House says, there is clear evidence that shows
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the trend is in the right direction now. President Trump
had to tame Biden's inflation, and under Biden, inflation average
nearly five percent and hitting nine point one percent during
the worst inflation crisis in decades, all of it fueled
by radical left, out of control government spending. In President
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Trump's second term, inflation has dropped to an average of
just two point seven percent, significantly lower than the four
year average of five percent under Biden and nine point
one percent of it's all time high, artical first step
in reversing the Democrats' cost of living disaster. In fact,
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under President Trump, Americans have even seen the first overall
price declines since twenty twenty In several different categories. Now,
Americans have made real wage gains as well, and there's
still work to do, The White House says as well,
but let's remind you about where we were Under Biden,
workers lost more than two thousand, nine hundred dollars in
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purchasing power, meaning inflation rose faster than wages. In President
Trump's second term, even after accounting for higher prices, America's
real wages have grown by nearly seven hundred dollars and
are on track to increase by nearly one thy two
hundred after his first full year in office. And then
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there's the major prices that we deal with every day.
Gas price is a great example. Under Biden, the average
gas price was the highest it had ever been during
a president of term, reaching its highest ever price even
after he drained our strategic oil reserves to artificially decrease
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pricing before election day. And President Trump's second term, Americans
have seen the lowest average gas price in more than
four years, and we're on track to spend the lowest
amount of their disposable income on gas in the last
two decades. As President Trump's energy dominance vision continues to
come to fruition, energy prices, they say, we'll fall even further,
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igniting another price decline that will help all Americans. Now,
if you're not happy with the price of the pump,
let's talk about Grocery prices and housing prices are trending
also in the right directions for American workers. Prices for
everyday staples are starting to see declines finally under Donald Trump.
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Prices for eggs, for butter, ice cream, fresh fruit, cereal, seafood, rice, pasta,
and ham have all seen declines, and more help is
on the way. Housing costs are also moderating. Under Biden,
mortgage rates at their highest in decades. In President Trump's
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second term, the average thirty year fixed rate mortgage was
six point one seven percent at the end of October,
twelve percent lower than when he took office. That according
to the Consumer Price Index. In fact, the twelve month
change in overall shelter costs is at its lowest level
in four years as well. Now, there are other efforts
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to continue driving prices down. The President talked about it tonight,
ramping up take home pay and strengthening our economy. President
Trump's deregulatory efforts are also saving Americans. A collective one
hundred and eighty billion. What does that mean for you?
Two than one hundred dollars per family of four? For example,
President Trump Hall Burdens and Biden air efficiency standards that
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jacked up the price of everyday appliances. And President Trump
signed into law the largest tax cut in American history.
This includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
and no tax on Social Security, all of which will
save Americans money in their tax returns. The landmark legislation
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will raise America's take on pay by as much as
thirteen thousand, three hundred and wages by as much as
eleven thousand, six hundred. So the President decided to take
the stage to talk about exactly where we are.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
And I want you to hear what the President had
to say.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
While Democrats wanted to give Americans the largest tax syke
in history, in July, I proudly gave you the largest
tax cuts in American history and signed the one Big
Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I caught the great, big beautiful bill into law.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
and no tax on Social Security.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
For our great seniors. That is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's amazing what the President's accomplished already this year, but
the President says I'm not done there, and made a
pledge to the American families, no matter if you're rich
or poor, conservative or liberal, black or white, or anything
else in between. Here's what the present pledged to you.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
My first term, we built the greatest economy in the
history of the world. And now we're doing it again.
But this time it really is, as I said, much stronger,
much better. I think it's going to be something that
nobody has ever seen before. My pledge to every family
and every small businesses that I will not rest until
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you are rich or stronger, more successful, happier, till you've
gotten a piece.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Of the American dream.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
Some of you in this room have really gotten a
piece of it because you made a great decision to
go with a great, great company years ago, and it's
really pretty amazing. And that begins with making America.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
We have to do.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
The word is affordable, and affordable should be our word,
not theirs, because the Democrats got up and took affordability affordable,
and they don't say that. They had the worst inflation
in history, the highest energy prices in history, everything was
the worst.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
President Trump is bringing jobs and investments back to the
US as part of his plan to expand America's economy.
In fact, since President Trump took office, companies have invested
trillions I want to say that word again, trillions of
dollars into their US based operations, on shoring and creating
hundreds of thousands of new jobs for Americans. President Trump
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is also reducing the deficit. A combination of spending cuts,
interest savings, economic growth, and tariff revenues are expected to
reduce the deficit by trillions of dollars, resulting in higher
take on pay, lower interest rates in a much stronger
American economy. In fact, one point nine million more American
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born workers are employed today than when President Trump took office.
That's one point nine million Americans who are now happily
at work with a job right now. The US has
more people working now than at any time in the
history of our country, and the Trump administration, he says,
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will not rest until the high prices that resulted from
democratic policies are fully rained in.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
He said.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
We're making progress, and the best, he says, is yet
to come.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
We're making tremendous progress.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
One point nine million more American born workers are employed
today than when I took off. To think of that,
one point nine million more today, and these are American
born workers. Nobody thought that was possible. And we have
the strongest borders in the history of our country. Nobody
comes in unless they come in legally. You see the numbers.
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Everyone thinks it's impossible a year ago, millions of people
with storming our borders. Today they only come in if
they come in legally, and wages for hourly workers arising
at the fastest pace in sixty years now.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
The President also made it clear that there's a lot
when it comes to trade deals. We're seeing trade deals
with Switzerland that have just been announced, and we're modifying
tariffs for certain agricultural products. In fact, on Friday, President
Trump signed an executive order exempting certain qualifying agricultural products
from the reciprocal tariffs that he first announced on April
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the second. Exemptions are accordingly set to be granted following
a spat of new trade deals being inked with some
of our biggest allies in the Western Hemisphere. In addition
to deals that President Trump has already secured with the EU, Japan,
the UK, and other major trading partners.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
What will this do well.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It will give substantial progress in making sure that American
workers are able to export at the same level that
we're importing. And Donald Trump also made it clear that
there are major investments coming into this country and the
tariff money is being used to help American workers, something
that the left and the media said was impossible.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Take a listen about that.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
And to your leader, who when we met, I said,
how are you doing with racist prices are coming down?
He said, we were up forty percent because of Biden
and inflation, and they're coming down and they're coming down rapidly.
So I hope that all continues to go. But we're
really doing well as the country. Most importantly, however, I
will take big picture. We have over seventeen trillion dollars
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being invested in our country in nine months. It's now
just about ready to crack eighteen, and by the end
of one year we will have about twenty to twenty
one trillion dollars invested in our country. That's more by
ten times the highest amount ever invested in any country
ever before, and it's largely because of tariffs, and I
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think November fifth election, but it's the largest amount. As
an example, so if we have twenty year twenty one
in one year, twenty one trillion, think of.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
What that is.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
That's car factories, that's AI, it's everything. They're all coming
back because of the tariffs. They're all coming back because
they don't want.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
To pay fifteen twenty thirty one hundred percent tariff. It
wasn't that complicated. People are saying, you know, Trump was right.
It really wasn't that complicated. But it's been amazing.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
As an example, if you take me at twenty for
one year, sleepy Joe Biden, you know what, he was
less than one for four years, and if they got elected,
they would have been at minus ten because people were
moving out of the country in record numbers.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So I hope you'll take the info that I gave
you today, and I hope you'll share it wherever you
can on social media, share this podcast and text messages
with family and friends, because this is the reality of
what's happening, and it's the complete opposite of what the
left and the media are selling the American people.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
They believe that they are successful.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Right now in convincing most Americans that somehow the economy
is a disaster. Because of Donald Trump, and that things
aren't getting better. In fact, they're getting worse. But if
you look at the facts, that's just not the truth.
Thank goodness, because of President Donald Trump, it is incredible leadership.
Don't forget to share this podcast, by the way, with
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your family and your friends on social media wherever you
can hit that subscribe or auto download button and I'll
talk to you again tomorrow
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